Televising the Court?

By Lyle Denniston
on Mar 30, 2006 at 6:17 pm

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved for Senate consideration a bill that would direct the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of its public sessions. The bill also seeks to dictate what the Court would have to do to keep the cameras out case by case. It raises interesting separation-of-powers questions.

The text of the bill can be found here. A statement by the C-Span cable network about the Committee’s action is here.